APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Negative Feelings Won’t Help You Survive: An Examination of Memory for Emotion State Words in the Survival Paradigm
- Dailyn Clark
University at Albany, The State University of New York - Jeanette Altarriba
University at Albany, State University of New York
Abstract
Words processed for survival relevance are better recalled than words processed for relevance to other themes (Nairne et al., 2007). The current study examined how emotion state words (e.g., cheer; anger) are processed in the survival paradigm. Our findings indicate the survival advantage may be moderated by negatively-valenced emotion-state words.
Memory
